Whats on your turntable tonight?

steve winwood "back in the high life" and "talking back to the night" original island records $5 albums that sounds like a $1,000,000.00

Music of William Alwyn, twentieth century English composer:

Rhapsody for Pf Qt
Str Qt 3
Str Trio (1962)
> the Quartet of London, on Chandos ABRD 1153 - yes it's a digital recording, but it sounds great

"Naiades," Fantasy-Sonata for Flute and Harp
Divertimento for solo Flute (1939)
Mirages, Song Cycle for Baritone & Piano
> on Lyrita SRCS 61 - wonderful recording!

In the process of breaking in a Walker Audio Velocitor and new power cord supplying the turntable and phono stage. All I can say thus far is: "Wow!" This device is not leaving our system.

More chamber music tonight starting with Franz Berwald's "String Quarter in g" played by the Chilingirian Quartet on CRD 1061. The CRD label (England) is well worth searching out for those who enjoy chamber music. Most of the recordings are by the excellent engineer Bob Auger who consistently captures exceptionally natural sounding, simply miked and transparent recordings.
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Hit the area yard sales yesterday. Spent part of today cleaning and listening.

Mussorgsky - Ravel "Pictures at an Exhibition" Wallenstein/Virtuoso Symphony of London (Audio Fidelity FCS 50,004)

Corigliano "Concerto For Piano and Orchestra" Hilde Somer (Piano)/San Antonio Symphony/Alessandro (Mercury SR 90517) This one is a Marc Aubort engineering effort. Enormous dynamic range, looked like it was in pretty good shape. Ran it through the Loricraft and played it. Tons of noise throughout. Sounds almost like breakup or distortion, possibly due to some gunk deep down in the grooves. I am going to work on this one as the recording itself is superb, and the performance interesting.

Actually, last night: Mahler's 4th Symphony...especially, the 3rd & 4th movements. Columbia Masterworks series. Bernstein conducting the NY Philharmonic. Reri Grist is the soprano soloist. Don't think it is that great a recording from a sonic or engineering point of view, but I greatly enjoy the "Poco Adagio" 3rd and Reri's singing in the 4th.